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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaEcuadorIran
51,18112,26864,704
52,78212,44665,411
54,45312,62966,167
56,17012,82766,689
57,86013,07467,807
59,59913,36868,480
61,47413,66169,325
63,47913,91570,158
65,59014,13371,040
67,80014,35271,942
70,11414,56972,888
72,55014,78673,826
75,13815,00274,625
77,79215,21875,446
80,53415,43376,418
83,36815,64777,521
86,22915,86078,652
89,19316,07279,700
92,20916,28280,725
95,23216,48981,721
98,32016,69382,685
101,49916,89483,614
104,76717,09384,505
108,17117,28885,108

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Iran

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.